The aim of this article is to use probabilistic ideas to study predictive reasoning based on hypotheses and models, but without using Ito calculus, without writing any stochastic differential equations, in fact without writing any formulas at all. The aim is to extract from the study of...

Weather derivatives are financial contracts for which the underlying is not a traded asset. Therefore, they cannot be priced by the traditional financial theory based on the hedging portfolio and on the arbitrage-free argument. Some authors suggest to use the actuarial pricing approach to value...

We give the limiting distribution of the least squares estimator in the polynomial regression model driven by some long memory processes. We prove that with an appropriate normalization, the estimation error converges, in distribution, to a random vector which components are a mixture of...

The 2007 financial crises has brought to eminence and a long overdue recognition to the ideas of Hyman P. Minsky who is a post-Keynesian authority on monetary theory and financial institutions. He had extensively studied the economic fluctuations and recurring instability of the financial system...

This study examines whether the corporate governance rankings published by The Globe and Mail, a reputed national Canadian newspaper, are reflected in the values that investors accord to firms. A sample of 796 observations on 289 Canadian companies from 2002-2005 inclusively was analyzed using a...

This article explores the issue of the failure of the French New Market, a French Financial market, in the light of the dynamics of organisational rules between 1996 and 2005. The French New Market (FNM) was created in 1996 in order to finance European growing firms. After its creation, this...